Mintent’s Full-Service Back-Office Support
Mintent helps marketers optimize their entire content marketing process from start to finish with a powerful suite of software and digital marketing services.
Mintent is an innovative content marketing software company that allows brands to keep track of their campaign assets, team members and deadlines—all in one easy place.
Mintent allows their clients to work smarter and faster by changing how they work, just like Enkel does. You could say we’d found the perfect partners.
The Need
New CEO Matt Dion came to us with a vision for improving efficiencies within his accounting department. His goal was to reduce overhead costs, while finding a more efficient way to generate meaningful financial information.
How Enkel Helped
With Matt’s challenges in mind, we worked together to redesign Mintent’s back-office processes, and then refined them over the course of a few month to ensure that the processes made sense for the business. Luckily, Mintent was already set up on Xero’s cloud-based accounting software. Xero allows us to work collaboratively with the Mintent team, while easily and accurately accessing their financial data from anywhere. We also took over Mintent’s bi-weekly payroll processes.
Key Challenges
Getting all stakeholders involved and on-board with new processes is always a challenge. As the Mintent management team began to see how our new vacation reporting and payroll change systems were faster and easier, good habits started to develop.
With significant turnover just prior to us starting, there were knowledge gaps that required further investigation. With dedicated involvement from an Enkel accounting manager during the onboarding phase, we were able to efficiently transition knowledge between our two teams.
Mintent’s financial statements follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), which recognizes revenue on a straight line basis. Given that cash is often collected at the inception of a contract, it was necessary to maintain a separate cash flow plan outside of their core accounting system.
How Enkel Helped Mintent
Using a centralized accounting system, we manage all accounts payable transactions via Xero. Matt sends us his transaction details weekly so that we can reconcile the bank accounts and make sure that accounts payable is up to date.
We set Mintent up with a Plooto account to safely and securely manage all of their vendor payments. Plooto eliminates the need for cheques and saves businesses money on wire transfer fees. With bi-weekly calls, Matt and his team are able to run any questions they have by us.
We set up standardized onboarding and offboarding processes for employees, making payroll quick and easy. Managing all data entry, T4s and ROEs via Rise payroll software, Matt is able to be completely hands-off when it comes to payroll. Next, we streamlined Mintent’s internal expense reporting processes, reimbursing business expenses through payroll.
The Result
Mintent’s accounting costs were reduced by more than half.
Mintent is now operating without an in-house accounting team, relying on Enkel exclusively for all of its bookkeeping. While we were in the process of setting up Mintent’s bookkeeping processes, we were also able to assist them in stick-handling their financial statement audit, dealing directly with their auditors and pulling various records as required.
Ready to simplify your accounting processes?
You’ve probably got a lot of questions, and we’re ready and waiting with answers. Let’s have a quick chat about how Enkel can help with your accounting headaches.